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Exploratory Study on Values of Small Business Policy: Focusing on Changes and Trends according to Administration in Korea

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2016, 27(1), pp.209-243
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Lee, Jeonghee 1 Cheol H. Oh 2

1서울시립대학교
2숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

Policy values are basic principle and guide for policy related activities during entire policy process, and fundamental not only for policy design and formation but also for policy analysis and evaluation. For small business field, policy values are important principles and common objectives of governmental intervention and help policymakers to build policy framework and sound programs according to the conditions of specific industries. Until now, most studies have focused on the policy evaluations of governmental intervention, based on the efficiency and effectiveness criteria. Small number of studies have tried to analyze the meaning of efficiency and use this concept as a tool for analysis of relationship between policy goads and instruments. This study tries to look into policy values and analyze the structure and change of policy values of small business policies in Korea. Applying contents analysis method, this study identifies four major policy values – efficiency, equity, fairness, business ecosystem values, and could see the change of importance of these policy values. Importance of efficiency and fairness kept on growing. On the other hand, equity became less important. Business ecosystem values have peaked and slowly losed its importance. Though exploratory in nature, this study is the first attempt to examine policy values in small business sector and complemtary to previous studies which are focused on the policy framework and performance of programs in the field of small business policies.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.